Hungary and Slovakia refuse to sign EU summit conclusions on Ukraine
Hungary and Slovakia did not sign the conclusions of the December meeting of the European Council on Ukraine, adopted on the night of 19 December. The document contains a decision to provide Ukraine with a €90bn loan based on joint borrowing by the EU countries in 2026 and 2027.
According to EU diplomats, both countries refused to support the final document in the Ukrainian part. According to them, Hungary and Slovakia were the only countries that did not sign the European Council's conclusions on Ukraine.
At the same time, the Czech Republic ensured that the text did not contain direct financial commitments to participate in supporting Ukraine in the amount of EUR 90 billion in 2026 and 2027. However, unlike Budapest and Bratislava, Prague, along with 25 other countries, signed the part of the decision that deals with the technical parameters of the loan.
Hungary did not sign any text of the European Council's conclusions on Ukraine in 2025, stating its disagreement with the EU's policy of large-scale support for Kyiv. For Slovakia, the refusal to support the Ukrainian part of the conclusions was the first since the beginning of the full-scale war.
